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HomeRight C800552 Heat Pro Deluxe 10-Piece Hot Air Tool Kit | 
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| Brand: HomeRight
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $34.99
You Save: $15.00 (30%)
New (2) from $34.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 233
Media: Tools & Hardware
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 11.7 x 4
MPN: C800552
Model: C800552
UPC: 012564005520
EAN: 0012564005520
ASIN: B000095SHQ
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Powerful 1200-watt hot air tool with accessory kit | | • | Strip paint, remove tile, or defrost pipes | | • | Variable heat control from 140-to-1,100-degrees Fahrenheit | | • | Dual speed fan | | • | Easy to read LED temperature display |
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Product Description
- Strip pint, remove tile, even defrost pipes. - Variable control for adjusting heat from 140 degrees F up to 1100 F. - Powerful 1200 Watts. - Easy to read LED display lets you control the heat setting. - 10 Piece kit includes specialized nozzles and scrapers. - Deluxe carrying case. - Dual fan speed.
Amazon.com Product Description
The HomeRight Heat Pro Deluxe Hot Air Tool will strip up to 10-layers of paint at a time, without the smell and mess of chemicals. This 10-piece kit features a variable speed heat tool with LED temperature display for easy reading, comes with a variety of specialized nozzles and scrapers to handle an array of different jobs, and is packed in a durable plastic carrying case. The hot air tool also works for speed-drying mud and caulk, spot-thawing frozen pipes, softening adhesives, bending plastic, and removing floor tile.
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| Customer Reviews:
It certainly does do the job April 24, 2008
I too purchased this product based on the other reviews. I bought it to remove paint on my home. Works as advertised. Great product! Great price!
Hot Air Tool Kit HomeRight C800552 Heat Pro Deluxe April 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good quality with attachments for just about anything you need to do. I haven't used it for large project where heat gun would be worked for hours a day, but numerous small projects where gun was used for several minutes at a time, have been accomplished without a hick-up. Good value product, worth the money spent. As usual, AMazon service was great!
Does the Job! April 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the HomeRight heat gun based on another customer's very detailed review.
Quality was surprisingly good for the price, and it came with attachments and a sturdy plastic carrying case.
The variable heat control settings, not found at this price range, really make the HomeRight heat gun versatile.
I've already reshaped a slightly dented rear plastic bumper on my SUV, saving myself a $1000 body repair job, and have done a few projects requiring heat shrink tubing.
Great deal for the price!
top dollar saving April 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
it is of top quality for it's value, as compared to the other brand name heat guns
At least for occasional duty this HomeRight heat gun kit is great! March 16, 2006
37 out of 37 found this review helpful
I don't know the reliability track record for this brand (since I appear to be the first reviewer!), and can't yet say how this HomeRight C800552 Heat Pro Deluxe heat gun will hold up in long-term use for heavy-duty "construction" projects since I haven't yet used this item for such, but I've had this unit for about 3 months now with no problems.
Additionally, for occasional projects like heat-shrink tubing (medium heat), drying out the cell phone that got dropped in water (very gentle heat), it has some very nice features I wanted:
*What seems to me to be continuously-variable temperature settings: just rotate the dial to get the heat level for the job, no too-little/too-much as with some "digital step" units;
*the 1200 watts are claimed to take it from 140-1100 degrees F (60-590 C is marked on the dial), and the lowest setting is very gentle (which I found good for drying out delicate electronics);
*two air speeds (plus OFF; equivalent to some claims I saw for "three" air speeds);
*turns out to be reasonably quiet (quieter than a hair dryer and those big heavy-duty industrial heat guns with only one or two settings), and can support itself on a table pointing straight up (to free up your hands);
*a row of 6 nifty LED lights that indicate POWER ON plus 5 more that fade in one-by-one as the heat dial is cranked up to roughly indicate increasingly hotter settings (good for an at-a-glace safety reminder for when the unit is pointing up and the dial is on the bottom);
*accessories were included (no extra hunting/ordering hassles), although the hand tools are fairly light duty: concentrator, deflector, window-protector, and hook nozzles; all-purpose, triangular, combination, and heart-shaped scrapers;
*a carrying case.
The accessory nozzles would probably hold up OK for larger projects (since you're not supposed to put pressure on them), but you might find the rather light-duty hand scrapers suitable only for the occasional smaller project. But better hand scrapers are readily available at the stores -- it's the nozzles that fit your particular unit that are hard to find.
This HomeRight lacks, of course, the qualities of a professional high-end heat gun like the better Steinel models that feature laboratory-grade thermocouple feedback control, LCD temperature readout, automatic cool-down cycle, etc., but when you pay in the neighborhood of two hundred dollars for such a unit you should expect better quality. Actually I was expecting accessories to be included at such prices, but those are additional and also rather pricey.
Looking down the nose of this unit it appears to have a ceramic form on which the heating wire is wrapped, which may (or may not) be better than units which sport two crossed sheets of mica which I've seen in a lot of short-lived hair dryers.
Some of the, uh, let's just say "recreational smokers" that use heat guns for their vaporization/volatilization/hot-gas-extraction "aromatherapy" or "phyto-inhalation hobby" need certain features that this unit might not offer, such as "ceramic block encapsulated" heating elements (so as to not get mica or metals in the air stream) and more-closely-regulated thermostatic temperature control. Such "hobbyists" should probably look elsewhere to the Bosch/Makita/Steinel/Sears-Craftsman-by-Steinel class models.
However, since I'm not really an everyday professional painter/plumber/woodworker/etc. (or even an avid do-it-yourself hobbyist for that matter), I finally convinced myself that although I could imagine doing all sorts of heat-gun projects around the house, calming down and scaling back in price to something potentially less durable would be OK for me.
That then left the issue of finding a unit with useful accessories easily available. Many of the modestly-priced units in the local retail hardware and construction stores (Lowes, Home Depot) were not-so-bad (say, the Wagoner Digital Heat Gun), but lacked a set of accompanying nozzles stocked at the store, thus driving up the overall cost.
Then I found this HomeRight unit at a local Sears store in the paint department, kinda far away from their other models in the tool department, only to find out later that I could have purchased it for even less, delivered to my door, here at Amazon!
Bottom line? If you are a pro or semi-pro user, you could take a chance and buy up to 4 or 5 of these units for the price of some of the others, and thus have backups on hand (until you decide to get a professional model), or perhaps let other folks help speed up your project until one breaks and then you'd still have at least one working one with some warning time to get a replacement.
So, for an occasional-use person like me I think it's great since it's reasonably powerful, handles nicely, is reasonably quiet, is nicely equipped, has that simple-to-adjust continuously variable heat setting, is holding up so far (I haven't accidently dropped it yet), and at this price you can try it and still have money left over to buy another brand if it doesn't meet your needs. I don't see how you can lose!
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